From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 21:20:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6721B16A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:20:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@transpack.com) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.192.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230DB43D46 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:20:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@transpack.com) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([68.80.195.248]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20060126212023m12003bp98e>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:20:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644B4B822; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:20:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bserver.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16590-03; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:20:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from kbuilt.transpack.com (kbuilt.transpack.com [192.168.214.102]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962FCB81F; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:20:20 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Stevenson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:20:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <41b95770601261225m2a575b19o@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41b95770601261225m2a575b19o@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601261620.11964.ken@transpack.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at transpack.com Cc: Grzegorz Danecki Subject: Re: "screen" alternative X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:20:25 -0000 On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:25 pm, Grzegorz Danecki wrote: > Hi List! > > I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let me > detach my session leaving my software running. First thought - "screen", > but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection :( Google says > something that it was removed due to high cpu utilization few releases ago. > Is this true? Are there any alternatives? Because as I can remember screen > was frequently used and highly appreciated application. If you're running a utility from a shell prompt, look at: man nohup If you want a detached remote X session look at /usr/ports/net/tightvnc